In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us
We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life
Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
You are not free until your past has no effect on your future
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.
We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!
Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
Owning our past allows us to own our future.
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.
Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer's role is to be a truth sayer. I sincerely believe that each society, each country lives by a particular fantasy vision, a fantasy vision of itself. The truth of how they live is hardly ever faced.
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.
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